You’ve bought a house! Congratulations! No more landlord or rent to pay – and no maintenance man or building superintendent to call for help when you have a question or problem. As a new homeowner, it ...

In everyday usage, knowledge refers to awareness of or familiarity with various objects, events, ideas, or ways of doing things. But, as philosophers have noted for centuries, things get complicated ...

Our eyes, gestures, and tone bring us together in a more profound way than words alone. It’s why we look hopefully toward the return of in-person, face-to-face connection. In everyday usage, knowledge ...

Diane Ravitch shows us one reason innovation in education has proved to be so elusive over the past century. In her op-ed this week, she takes the advocates of 21st Century Skills to task for their ...

A new study from a pair of Penn State researchers finds that passing the US Citizenship Test as a high school graduation requirement does nothing to improve youth voter turnout. Within the last decade ...

According to a new study, knowledge of potentially toxic household substances among primary caregivers for young children is alarmingly poor. According to a new study, knowledge of potentially toxic ...

Just one in five retirement-age Americans can pass a basic quiz on strategies to make their nest eggs last throughout retirement. A large majority (80%) of retirement-age Americans received failing ...

Improving the public's understanding of anthropogenic climate change is vital to cultivating the political will to do something about it. However, a lot of research has shown that simply improving ...